With harvesting set to begin in September and end sometime in October, the authorities need to undertake and develop an insect pest management research programme that will evaluate strategies that are cost effective yet environmentally acceptable. In the first place, we need to develop methods to avoid insect pest problems through crop management, resistant varieties, and forge better understanding of the pest’s biology/ecology and molecular genetics.
The effect of these losses and subsequent low cotton prices have transformed buying interest from leading spinners that helped cotton prices recoup part of the recent losses, with both the Sindh and Punjab varieties moving above the Rs6,000 per maund mark. For the first time in the last two weeks, buyers were sufficiently present in the trading ring. The lower cotton prices seem to have attracted buying from leading spinners who were seen active in replenishing their stocks.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2017.
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